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James 2:4-6
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4 If so, have you not made distinctions[a] among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?[b] 5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters![c] Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor![d] Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:4 tn Grk “have you not made distinctions” (as the conclusion to the series of “if” clauses in vv. 2-3).
  2. James 2:4 tn Grk “judges of evil reasonings.”
  3. James 2:5 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
  4. James 2:6 tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.
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